Recent content by Mmmm Butter

Shaved my time down to 1300, looks like that's been bested already. Played as Qin again, all the same settings (vs. Mansa, Cyrus, Liz, Asoka and Fredrick). Yep, gotta get the pyramids, and scoring the hanging gardens seems to help a lot too. In all 4 games I've played, the population of my...

Just finished my first attempt, with a 1380 ad finish. It could have been quicker, I made a few mistakes, especially with religions. I played as Qin, and had all the same opponents listed above (Mansa, Fredrick, Asoka, Cyrus) except I had Elizabeth in place of Hatty. I settled on spot and...

I voted for Caesar because he tends to be so peaceful. I've only seen him declare war once in all my games. He also never seems to build up one of the more powerful militaries either.

I always manually control my workers for most of the game. But when it gets to a point when there isn't much to do, I use the automate trade network option. I noticed that when that's turned on, workers improve resources above everything (i.e. they'll go mine uranium when you discover it)...

Sweet, this will be my first gauntlet. Since I've played nothing but diplo games lately, to submit to the HOF. My finishes have been getting better, but I'm nowhere NEAR 900 ad. :blush: I just finished my best one, and it was 1200 or so, but that was a small map, on marathon speed. Normal...

This was my second GOTM, and I also submitted a few HOF games recently. I read every post in this thread. I can't understand the argument against a milking strategy to get a higher score. It's a strategy. That's why, if one might take a look at the HOF tables, there's a line for highest...

Funny thing about the definition of continents in the game: on the Earth map, Africa is considered the same continent as Eurasia, because there's a snip of land connecting them. I realized this when I got a happiness bonus in my African cities from Notre Dame, which was built in Asia.

"I studied on killin you" is a quote from the movie Slingblade. Awesome movie. Probably my favorite quote in the game. Might be a shot in the dark here, but South Park also used Slingblade quotes in one episode, the towelie episode. Cartman says "you shouldn't a done that to that boy!", lol...

All Party members should be sure to vote in the recount poll that Koondrad posted. As of now, my vote put flexible government ahead by 2 votes, this poll will be plusclose, and The Party needs flexibility in order to appoint its members to useful positions. Plusgood ideas for Oceana, btw...

I'm nitpicking, but I'd say a quarry could be an example. As far as I know, to build a quarry, you really just need to dig a real big hole in the ground, and make a way to extract the rock. To destroy a quarry, I guess the only way would be to fill the hole up, and destroy the machinery, if it...

I hear ya, Israel definitely does have more than enough historical significance to be included, and I'd like to see them included personally. I suppose I'm just scared about the religion stuff being first put into this installation. Like the developers were, as shown in that disclaimer in the...

I"ll guess... Babylon for sure. Beyond that, I'll guess for real then... Since I'm a casual civver, and I think my demographic is what this installation is based on or whatever... I'd say Vikings, at some point, and that's obvous. Portugal, Carthage, the Celts by popular demand, and...

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23, male, new jersey civ 4 is my first civ game

Thanks Ybbor and George. :goodjob: That chart is exactly what I was thinking, and started to make one in ms paint exactly the same way except I went left-to-right. Once I got to units that upgrade to grenadiers and/or riflemen, it got pretty messy. That's great though, thanks. And I'll...